*Introduction to IRCAM*
IRCAM is a leading non-profit organization associated to Centre Pompidou, dedicated to music production, R&D and education in acoustics and music. It hosts composers, researchers and students from many countries cooperating in contemporary music production, scientific and applied research. The main topics addressed in its R&D department include acoustics, audio signal processing, computer music, interaction technologies, musicology. Ircam is located in the center of Paris near the Centre Pompidou, at 1, Place Igor Stravinsky 75004 Paris.
*Position description*
Two jobs are available from February 1st, 2008 within the “Sound Analysis/Synthesis Team” of Ircam, each for a duration of 5 months (with possible extensions).
_Context_: The work is to be done is part of the Quaero project. The Quaero project aims at the development of a multimedia search engine. In this framework, music content extraction algorithms are developed. For the validation of those, a large musical corpus is developed.
_Tasks description_: The jobs concerns
* the manual annotation of the music tracks of this corpus. Using an
annotation software, the music tracks must be annotated into
various musical information: beat positions, measure positions,
chords succession over time, notes succession, musical structure.
* providing user-feedbacks to the developer of the annotation software.
* participating to the improvement of the specification of the
distribution of the musical corpus.
*Required profile*
The candidates should have
* a good listening/ earing (absolute pitch if possible), a good
sense of rhythm/tempo ; musical education is of course an added
value (knowledge of the various meter, various chord types, …)
* a good knowledge of the specificity’s of the various music genre
specificity’s (classical, jazz, pop, international, …)
* practice of computer software and tools
*Salary*
According to background and experience
*EEC WORKING PAPERS:*
In order to start immediately, the candidate should preferably have EEC citizenship or already own valid EEC working papers.
*Applications*
Please send an application letter together with your resume, a photo and
any suitable information addressing the above issues preferably by email
to geoffroy.peeters@ircam.fr with cc. to Hugues.Vinet@ircam.fr.
Geoffroy Peeters
Ircam – R&D
tel: +33/1/44.78.14.22
email: peeters@ircam.fr
<http://www.ircam.fr>